[Gluster-devel] Compile Xlator manually with lib 'glusterfs'

[David Spisla]

Am Mi., 10. Okt. 2018 um 13:31 Uhr schrieb Amar Tumballi <
atumball at redhat.com>:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:43 PM David Spisla <spisla80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>> I am trying some stuff with xlator compiling and at the moment I use a
>> Makefile according to this manual:
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/developer-guide/translator-development.md#this-time-for-real
>>
>>
> While this gives a great details about translator developments, it may not
> be up-to-date! Will get to fixing that!
>
I am looking forward for this!

>
>
>> There is a Lib called 'glusterfs' which is used by the Linker to create
>> the so file. This refers to a package 'glusterfs-api-devel' which has to be
>> installed when using that Lib in the Makefile. One will have a folder
>> /usr/include/glusterfs which contains a lot of Header files from the
>> Gluster Source.
>>
>> In my opinion all the Header files inside there are also in the GLFS
>> Source Tree and one doesn't need that library to compile xlators to so
>> files. If I remove that library in the Makefile the compilation succeed and
>> the xlator is running correctly.
>>
>> If I want to compile a xlator without the GLFS Source Tree by using only
>> that 'glusterfs-api-devel' the compiler misses a lot of sources.
>>
>> But what is the meaning of that library now? Is the manual linked above
>> outdated?
>> At the moment I prefer not using that 'glusterfs' library and compile
>> only from the GLFS Soruce Tree.
>>
>>
> Two questions:
>
> Are you looking at developing a translator outside of glusterfs tree? like
> mentioned @ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1636297 ?
>
Nice project. I am looking for this option! But it should be a solution
without installing global packages, something like a minimal source tree

Regards
David

>
> Or do you want to add a translator to glusterfs source tree? Then I
> recommend having a look at
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/master/xlators/playground/template/src
>
> -Amar
>
>
>> Regards
>> David Spisla
>>
>>
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> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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